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adj. - Used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each.

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  • It would have failed without the two forces in symbiotic relationship.
  • But it also fits with other evidence of a long-term symbiotic relationship between the Bushes and the bin-Ladens.
  • Second, there is a great deal of consensus for endosymbiosis — the idea that prokaryotes in symbiotic relationships eventually led or helped to lead to eukaryotes.
  • The system is a so-called symbiotic binary containing
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